Was it maybe a translate from fortran? Ijk has that sort of sound On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, 20:48 Greg Keogh, <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry not helpful for your situation exactly, but I don’t know about regex >> being easier to read than an old C style method. >> > > Ah, a religious coding war. > > The C++ raw parsing code that was transliterated into C# looks like > classic C from the late 1970s (it was actually written in Borland C++ in > the early 90s), and it really reminds me of the S/360 assembler I wrote in > the mid 1980s. The only difference between early C and the assembler is the > indentation. > > The C-style parsing code is about 50 lines of code with ijk ints and > indexing. The Regex equivalent is 5 short lines (but 10x slower). > > Do you want the red pill or the blue pill? > > *Greg* > >>